"You should not honor men more than truth."
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"Half the truth is often a great lie."
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
"I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living."
"To be believed make the truth unbelievable."
"I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true."
"Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true ."
"We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth."
"Honesty is the best policy."
"A thing's innate disposition does not lie."
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
"That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility."
"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won."
"Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood."
"Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude."
"To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact."
"Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable."
"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another."
"The instruments of darkness tell us truths."